6,275 itemsWelcome to Videogame Videos

The Internet Archive is working with multiple external parties, including the IGDA's Preservation SIG and Stanford University's How They Got Game Project to preserve all kinds of rare and difficult to source video files relating to videogames.

Updates to the collection are now listed below:

April 2009: Daniel Floyd has contributed his "Videogames And..." series of videos to the Videogame Footage collection.
March 2009: We've now added the NextGenWalkThroughs collection, which will include walkthroughs for many major contemporary video games - thanks to NextGenWalkThroughs.com for the uploads.
February 2009: Uploads of Sega videos to the Videogame Footage collection by Satakore.com's Madroms.
November 2008: The Let's Play collection has been created, with contributions from the Let's Play Archive.
October 2008: Finished adding all existing episodes of the mockumentary videogame-based show Pure Pwnage to the Videogame Footage collection.
March 2008: Now added, the Archiving Virtual Worlds collection, "...dedicated to the academic investigation and historical preservation of documentation of virtual worlds."
October 2007: Have added the C64 Game Video Archive, with a mass of gameplay videos from Commodore 64 titles - thanks to Reinhard Klinksiek.
September 2007: Now adding selected promotional videos and interviews from the archive of Shacknews and its Fileshack video collection - thanks to Steve Gibson and Chris Remo.
September 2007: Added all existing episodes of Scottish satirical video game show Consolevania to the Videogame Footage collection.
September 2007: Added multiple lectures from the Independent Games Summit to the Videogame Footage collection - thanks to CMP Technology.

If you have material that you would like to donate to this collection, please contact Simon Carless, the Internet Archive's curator attached to this project, at simon@archive.org.

[NOTE: If you're looking for Machinima, it has been moved into the new Animation & Cartoons collection.]

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	Archiving Virtual Worlds The Virtual Worlds video archive is dedicated to the academic investigation and historical preservation of documentation of virtual worlds. This collection is a collaborative effort of the How They Got Game Project of the Stanford Humanities lab, as part of the Preserving Virtual Words project...	355 items
	GDC Extras Archive The GDC (Game Developers Conference), previously the Computer Game Developers Conference, is a series of events held worldwide to bring together developers, marketers, management, artists, and others involved in the creation of electronic entertainment. Besides the main events, GDC also maintains...	31 items
	Let's Play Let's Play is a collection of videogame playthroughs with commentary (either text or audio). Let's Play videos show the videogame being played while the player talks about what he is doing in real time commentary (sometimes just with text). Generally the playthroughs are spread over several...	354 items
	Speed Runs Speed running (trying to complete a videogame in the fastest time possible) is almost as old as gaming itself. At least, it's almost as old as games that have a definite end point or staging points, since speedrunning a game with infinitely repeating levels is Sisyphean. This collection hosts...	3,369 items
	The C64-Gamevideoarchive This collection showcases games playthroughs from the classic Commodore 64 computer, charting its evolution chronologically, with in-depth videos of the games being played. This collection is a work in progress and will be updated periodically.	314 items
	Videogame Footage Miscellaneous videogame-related shows, lectures, films, in-game and live footage of various useful and historical kinds. This collection includes: Game-related Video News Releases (VNRs) and Electronic Press Kits (EPKs) that were originally submitted to the Computer Chronicles television series...	205 items
	Videogame Interviews This collection includes filmed interviews and documentary pieces with important figures from videogame history, including many contributions quizzing contemporary Japanese developers and other important Western figures, thanks to UK-based game website Kikizo.com, USA-based Fileshack.com and...	44 items
	Videogame Previews More than 2,200 custom-created previews, from two major sources, are featured here. This collection showcases footage of video game titles produced for a variety of platforms, from Game Boy Color to Xbox, between 1993 - 2004. The previews are presented in the form of trailers - short videos that...	2,206 items
	Videogame Replays Freely distributable replay and demo movies from a number of different sources, including popular 2D shoot em up (or 'shmup') console and PC videogames, are featured here. Check out the incredible skills, amazing chains, and spectacular flying prowess demonstrated here!	276 items